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He's just going to end up doing damage to his own side - how many Tory MPs are over 70 I wonder?
I'm struggling to see why Rees-Mogg is fighting so hard over this one. I appreciate that he may well think a bit of parliamentary pantomime is more important than actually having a functioning representative democracy, but it seems an odd choice to be making a stand on. Unless they think the older members of the party are less likely to toe the party line when compared to more junior members who still have aspirations of climbing the oh-so-greasy Tory pole.
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I'm struggling to see why Rees-Mogg is fighting so hard over this one.
A lot of comment on Twitter that it's to shield Johnson from Starmer at PMQ's, how effective that will be is a question I'd ask - I guess a Wall Of Noise will give Johnson some time to think, but he's so out of his depth that I don't think what he can gather in those few seconds is going to enable him to out-fox Starmer.
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Aside from some Machievelian manoeuvre that must be the main reason, he is a real stickler for procedure of the house. The few times I enjoy him speaking it is usually about parliamentary tradition.
Dammit
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He's just going to end up doing damage to his own side - how many Tory MPs are over 70 I wonder?† How well is a by-election going to go when you've got a bungled pandemic on your hands and a competent opposition leader?
Not like the opposition have enough votes to stop any legislation anyway
† good chance we'll never be subjected to an aural assault from Bill Cash again